Vaccines are battle training for your immune system. If you could give it intel on the enemy, why would you withhold that? Give me ALL the vaccines! I want to be prepared for everything!

in baseball, we call this a wheeeeeeee!

How’s this for Orioles Magic? Jackson Holliday’s HR was the 4th time in the expansion era (1961) that the Orioles broke up a no-hit bid of 8 2/3 IP or more (@EliasSports) The 1st of those 4? 6/7/68, on a hit by Davey Johnson, who passed away today What a way to honor him 🫶

next-level wheeeeeeeeee!

Women textile designers for Liberty are the focus of the new exhibition opening at the William Morris Gallery next month - so many fabulous pieces to choose from! #textilehistory 🪡🗃️ www.wmgallery.org.uk/event/women-...

There are moments when, if you're very still and quiet, you can hear the music of all creation underlying our world. #illustration #KidLitArt

A website that lets you select a country or state and move it around a Mercator projection map to yield better size comparisons. thetruesize.com, created by James Talmage and Damon Maneice

Who's cutting onions in here?

This, from the Quakers, is a pretty good example of how to resist pressure from bigot lobbying groups. Effectively “we legally can allow trans people to use the loo, we morally should, and we tried it and nothing bad happened”

this looks fantastic #BookHistory #HistSci

Yes please.

The Large Horse 1505 Albrecht Dürer. (Philadelphia Museum of Art)

Very exciting: the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography published a cluster of new entries on women stationers. See the intro by Valerie Wayne: www.oxforddnb.com/newsitem/906... ODNB entries are so helpful in identifying women from traces on printed material. So happy to see this work ❤️

If anyone else is curious, the page imaged in the tweet is p. 142 of "The Reason Why: by Cecil Woodham-Smith (McGraw-Hill, 1953) available on Internet Archive: archive.org/details/reas...

@cuny.edu is providing consultation with an attorney for all current students and employees who need help with immigration issues! This is an amazing resource and other colleges should do the same. Good for CUNY for stepping up to the plate in this way. cuny.edu/CIAP

Big slate of FREE bits and bobs at The Bandwagon today. Read it, enjoy it, subscribe to get that sort of thing in your inbox three times a week. open.substack.com/pub/bandwago...

This is my boundary setting stamp card: every time I say no to something I get a stamp, and when I’ve collected 10 I can buy myself a book

Really good point. Editing isn't just improving a text; it's improving a text *with reference to the reader's needs and the writer's intentions*. But when there are no writer's intentions...

*blink* *blink blink blink* well.... shit. I was NOT expecting to be called out like that. Huh. *wanders off to reexamine a number of things* 😂

How may I be of assistance? A return to Barking? Sorry, I only issue tickets to Purrfleet and Meowchester Apologies, our card payment system is down. I’ll have to accept your fare in treatos,

This made me laugh. And then I sat and thought about it. This is correct.

One of the best things about being in an international server is that if I mention that I live in Bear Country (CO), the Australians all howl about how we need to shut up about Aussie wildlife, because THEIR large carnivores mostly stay in the water, NOT INVITE THEMSELVES INTO THE KITCHEN. (🧵1/?)

There are so many fun and interesting aspects to being an archivist! Rusty paperclip removal is not one of them 😬

That this disease went from an incurable 100% death sentence to something preventable in the space of my lifetime is stunning to me. Compare to early modern Europe, where smallpox and plague were endemic for generations. Below, a discussion of the test results. I truly never thought I'd see this.

There are two ways to get your pierogi at Veselka

I’m thinking a lot about what Fobazi Ettarh called “vocational awe” in librarianship, where the mythos & idealization of the “sacred” nature of the work leads to under-compensation (“not for the money”), job creep, martyrdom & burnout, silences marginalized folks, & more.

Heard the latest news from the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration? We detected the collision of the most massive pair of black holes so far: #GW231123 weighing in at ~137 + ~103 times the mass of the Sun! So to celebrate, here’s a handy chart ✨ Just how chonky are these black holes? 🤔

#Mood *cries in dissertation*

Holy shit. This guy saved a PNG to a bird. (he drew a bird into a spectrogram, played that sound to a starling, and the starling reproduced it back to him with enough accuracy he got his bird drawing back in their call's spectrogram) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC...

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

RIP www.youtube.com/watch?v=frAE...

Everyone is celebrating him for his (obviously wonderful) songs but I am also celebrating him for releasing all his works into the public domain and insisting he retained no copyrights over any of it.

We have always made delightful little guys.

Game Changer pride stickers are out now 🎉 (with massive thanks to @samreich.bsky.social for giving me permission to sell them!) UK: canopyrobin.sumupstore.com/product/game... International: canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4333...

These three Merlins-returning-from-Bermuda-in-the-20th-century-in-Disney’s-The-Sword-in-the-Stone were absolutely crushing it at the Maine Renaissance Faire today

Good lord, I am having an emotion watching this. www.broadwayworld.com/article/Vide...

A comic for #CatSky writers out there.

Rabbit holes I have fallen down while trying to write this lit review: US Code of Federal Regulations TNA collections UCSD archives UN Treaty Collection Herbert Hoover Library collections and of course @wellerstein.bsky.social's amazing nuclear documents database *cries in dissertation writing*

Panels from "How to Live With Atom," 1947. "Big mood," as the kids say (or used to say, I don't know anymore)...

Erin Bartram's piece came out 2.5 years ago, and I still think of it every day as the joys of my professional life are frequently crushed by the absolute demands imposed by institutions *refusing to hire people to do necessary work.*

This is my most-liked post. I feel pretty confident that it’s the best advice I have for anyone joining Bluesky. Life is just simpler this way 💙

A lovely little bronze #Roman mouse figurine, shown holding a morsel of food in his little front paws (a nut or seed maybe?), perhaps about to take a little nibble from it. It is about 1900-2000 years old 🐭 (📷 Christie's) 🏺 AncientBlueSky #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology

Fix This Sign xkcd.com/3113/

Love this halter neck cocktail dress designed by Robert Piguet, c1951. Image via KCI digital archives.

Paved with Love Happy Pride month! 🌈🏳️‍🌈 I spent a long time thinking about what to paint for this year until I saw a photo of flagstones covered in chalk art of various rainbows. It made me realize that the path to equality and a better tomorrow is paved slowly, step by step, and with love.

My morning summed up: a key concept of nuclear physics distilled down to a two sentence footnote. *facepalm* #Dissertating #CriesInDisseratationIntro

The secret German weather station on the Arctic island of Svalbard. Part of the 'Weather War'. The team, led by Lieutenant Wilhelm Dege, were the last German troops to surrender in WW2, finally doing so FOUR MONTHS after Germany had officially surrendered. It was not for want of trying. /1